Burst 19 - Our Sky Now and Then

Released: 31 July 2016
Duration: 24 minutes, 11 seconds

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Palomar Sky Survey image from 1950 around the area in question

Host Paul Carr discusses the recent paper "Our Sky Now and Then" with lead author and astronomer Beatriz Villarroel,a PhD student at the University of Upsalla in Sweden, Ms. Villarroel's team was undertaking an alternative approach to SETI, looking for evidence of effects in astronomical data that could not be due to natural effects.

Links:

Our Sky Now and Then
The USNO B1.0 Catalog
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Lost Star (Vizier)
The Nearby Infrared WISE object
Jason Wright: A WISE Search for Large Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: Jason Robinson